NEW ORLEANS — The “local poetry” shelf at Blue Cypress Books is packed. But one author is different from the rest.
For one, Belle Adelman-Cannon was just a teenager when they wrote the poems collected in the book “Every Time They Call Me She.” They also did not live to see their work published.
“Faced with the choice of, ‘there will never be a public record of Belle’s consciousness,’ or ‘there will be,’” Adelman-Cannon’s father Charles Cannon told WWL Louisiana, “we went for the latter.”…